You can save your sort preference in settings.

I like running my own too, and agree it’s a bit of a chore to get content.

I feel the biggest hurdle is finding communities. I wish the instance would automatically index communities from federated instances. I don’t mean track posts/comments, just keep a record of the communities existence.

Looking them up elsewhere, then searching locally, waiting for it to work, then subscribing is a bit of work and I’ve only bothered with about 10 so far.

Thank you for this list!

Love that UI implementation. That's really cool.